Recensione:
"A big, serious, scary novel...King is at the top of his game." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Surreal, tragic scary...builds to an epic climax. Terror that resonates long after the book is finished." (Washington Post Book World)
"Our best novelist of horror and our most serious anatomist of "horror" since Edgar Allan Poe. A tour de force...King is having great fun...vastly entertaining. He is a quintessentially American writer." (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
"Astonishing....The terror is relentless." (Publishers Weekly)
"Fabulous storytelling....Knockout classic horror: King's most carefully crafted, well-groomed pages ever." (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
"Prime terrifying King." (Cosmopolitan)
"A gory, gut-wrenching exercise in fear and paranoia. Desperation is a fast-paced, in-your-face, heart-pounding horror-thon that builds to an exciting conclusion." (Detroit Free Press)
"A claustrophobic nightmare of horror and madness." (Dallas Morning News)
"Heaps and heaps of sure-fire thrills." (Time)
"No one is as deft with the carnage, or has as much fun with it....King is the Winslow Homer of blood." (The New Yorker)
L'autore:
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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